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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Chapter 5: Proving Baptism to be Immerging or Dipping, from those Typical and Metaphorical Baptism…
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And so likewise Mr. Gosnold, 1a worthy and learned Man, understood it, speaking of those ⟨p. 60⟩Scriptures; We have here cited, saith he, these places diligently compared together, evidently show that the Baptism of the Spirit is a distinct Baptism from that of Water, and hath no Reference at all to the inward sanctifying Graces of the Spirit; but notes out the most extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit that ever were given to the Sons of Men, therefore called the Baptism of the Spirit.
And so likewise Mr. Gosnold, 1a worthy and learned Man, understood it, speaking of those ⟨p. 60⟩Scriptures; We have here cited, saith he, these places diligently compared together, evidently shew that the Baptism of the Spirit is a distinct Baptism from that of Water, and hath no Reference at all to the inward sanctifying Graces of the Spirit; but notes out the most extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit that ever were given to the Sons of Men, therefore called the Baptism of the Spirit.
- 1Treat. of Bapt. p. 62.
Object. But yet this Baptism however was by a pouring forth of the Spirit, and why may not Baptism be administered so?
Object. But yet this Baptism however was by a pouring forth of the Spirit, and why may not Baptism be administred so?